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Medicare

One Medical, Upward See ACO REACH as a Catalyst for Behavioral Health Innovation

By Laura Lovett |
Headquarters for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Headquarters illustrates a story about Mobile Crisis Intervention

Providers approved for the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new ACO REACH program are seeing an opportunity to further integrate behavioral health into care. Earlier this year, CMS announced it was nixing direct contracting and replacing it with the ACO Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (REACH) model. Multiple direct-contracting models were […]

Psychiatric Care

How CMS’ Primary Care Plus Model Triggered Massive Behavioral Health Integration

By Chris Larson |
Headquarters for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Headquarters illustrates a story about Mobile Crisis Intervention

Forty-five percent of providers that used the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model (CPC+) reported co-locating behavioral health services in their clinics. That’s according to a recent evaluation report released by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). CPC+ was a test of how primary care providers can form close partnerships with the federal government, […]

Medicaid

CMMI: Behavioral Health is Ripe with Opportunities

By Laura Lovett |
CMMI's Tequila Terry talks about value-based care at Behavioral Health's VALUE event.

The behavioral health sector “is ripe with opportunities to improve” as the Biden administration continues to prioritize mental health and addictions treatment. That’s according to Tequila Terry, group director of state innovation and prevention and population health at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). This improvement could mean behavioral health is integrated even […]